Improvement in skates



0. EDWARDS,

, I Skates.

10.163308, Patented Wig 18,1875.

THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOT0-LITH.39&41 PARK PLACEJLY.

OLIVER EDWARDS, OF FLORENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKATES.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,308, dated May18, 1875; application filed I November 25, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER EDWARDS, of Florence, in the county ofHampshire, in the State of Massachusetts, have made certain Improvementsin Skates, of which the following is a specification:

The object of this invention is to produce a skate that will be cheap,durable, and strong; and it consists in the construction of the parts,as will be fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of the skate; Fig. 2, uprightsection on line .90 00; Fig, 3, upright section on liney y; Fig. 4, topview of heel-plate 5 Fig. 5, perspective of heel portion of skate; Fig.6, side view of same, and Fig. 7 upright sect-ion through 2 z.

A represents the runner of the skate a, the forward riser; a, the centerriser, and the two together form the support for the foot or toe plate.a is the rear riser, and supports the heel-plate and heeLfastening. B isthe foot or toe plate, and is secured to the riser a by means of aslotted bracket having a rivet at its center that passes through a holein plate B, and to which the bracket is riveted fast by the rivet thatis cast with the bracket. bis a slotted bracket, and receives the riserin its vertical slot. Each side of the slot they extend down farenoughto receive a rivet, b,

' which passes through the limbs of the bracket and through the body ofthe riser a. When the rivet b is riveted down it secures the bracket tothe riser a of the runner. The bracket 1) is formed, as seen in verticalsection in Fig. 2, with the body part above the slot of strengthsufficient to sustain the plate B when the bracket is riveted to it, andbears in a recess, 12*, in the riser, as seen in dotted lines in Fig. 1,while on the top of this body part extends upward arivet, b, that goesinto a hole through plate B, and by which the plate is firmly secured tothe bracket. This bracket is cast with the rivet I) cast thereon, all inone piece. b b are brackets on the center riser a, and can be slottedthe same as bracket 1), or cast with the runner, and have two rivets, bb, extending upward from the upper face to go through the plate B, andsecure the back part of plate B to the bracket b as seen in Fig. 3.

G is the heel-plate secured to the rear riser a, and forms the supportfor the heel, and has two pieces, a, slit or punched down from openingsa) to form, when bent down, the tips, forming the means to fasten theforward end of plate 6 to the riser a, while the sides of lips 0 towardeach other are not cut from the plate, but remain a part of the plateand are bent down on. each side of the riser to be riveted to the riserby rivet c, as seen in Fig. 7. G is the button by which the heel of theskate is attached to the boot-heel in the usual way. This button is castwith the runner and riser. c is a rivet cast with or apart of the risera, and extends upward, and goes through and rivets down upon plate 0,and secures the rear part of the plate to the riser.

This construction of the runner without brackets gives greaterfacilities for the dressing and finishing up of the sides and top edgeof the runners, as they can be ground to size withouthaving anyprojecting surface to work around or interfere with the finishing. Thebrackets are also finished by themselves, which affords a much easiermode than where they are cast upon and with the runner, while thecutting and turning down thelips from the heelplate, and riveting themto the riser, forms one of the strongest means of securing them with outincreasing the weight of the skate, but decreasing it to the amount ofthe weight of the brackets, where brackets are used.

Both toe and heel plates can be wholly secured in this way, bypunchingdown lips upon each side of the risers, and havea light, strong, andsafe skate by such construction, but 1 prefer a wider base for thesupport laterally of the plates B and 0.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The lips 0 formedfrom plate 0, in combination with the rivet c, as a means of securingthe heel-plate to the riser a, substantially as described.

OLIVER EDWARDS.

Witnesses:

CALVIN PORTER, T. T. EOKERT, JR.

